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Melmetal GX
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What the card itself says
Everything below is written on the card itself: how much health it has, what it fears, and what its attacks cost.
- HP
- 220
- Type
- Metal
- Retreat cost
- 4
- Weakness
- ×2
- Resistance
- -20
Its Ability
Hard Coat
This Pokémon takes 30 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance).
Its attacks
Metal Blast
110+This attack does 20 more damage times the amount of Metal Energy attached to this Pokémon.
Iron Force GX
Attach any number of Metal Energy cards from your discard pile to this Pokémon. (You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)
What to make of it
Have a look at what it does well, then at what will get in your way. After that you'll know whether it belongs in your deck.
WHAT IT HAS GOING FOR IT
- It has an Ability, Hard Coat. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- Retreat cost 4. Once it is out front, it stays there. Pack something that moves it another way, or you will burn whole turns discarding Energy.
- None of the 3,240 tournament lists we have read runs it. That does not make it a bad card — it means we have not seen it on a table yet.
- Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,240 tournament lists we have read, 804 run at least one Pokémon of that type.
Who plays it
None of the tournament lists we have read mentions this card. That happens with a card that has just come out, or one players have not tried yet.
The other cards of this Pokémon
Two cards of the same Pokémon can be worth wildly different amounts — it depends on the set, the rarity and the artwork. We put all 16 Melmetal cards on one page, priciest first.